Forbidden fruit

Minions Go wild One clear and beautiful day the minions was working there butts off in Gru’s lab. Bob, Stuart, and Kevin was making smoothies for Gru’s new line of fruit smoothies. He calls it Gru’s delicious fruit smoothies. As soon as Gru walked to check on the minions Bob, Stuart, and Kevin stop juicing the fruits. Gru said very loudly so all the minions can hear so he said “ It’s time to stop working you guys.’’ All the minions jumped up with excitement and joy. So then all the minions…

have ever noticed that banana flavoring doesn’t taste like bananas, that is because it was based on the taste of the now extinct Gros Michel. The Gros Michel went extinct due to a combination of problems, among these were the vulnerability of the fruit itself, the primitive technology of the time, and the sudden outburst of panama disease. Panama disease was a great…

The Brisbane city council must give out free native plants and not Brisbane city council has a program that offers free native trees for you to grow freely (in selected areas) in your backyard. For this assignment I am proving the argument that the city council should only give native plants to the selected suburbs of Brisbane and not plants from other parts of Australia or the world. Using local native plants in your garden have a lot of benefits top offer, for example wildlife and better…

Part One: Topic 2 2. Explain how the blackberries, the birds, and the flies are contextual symbols. I think the blackberries are being used to represent a person’s life. In the beginning of a journey, the blackberries are ripe. The “blackberry alley” end in the second stanza. In the third stanza, “of white and pewter lights” could represent the end of the journey. The birds she identified as choughs. They resemble a crow. Crows are often used to symbolize, or relate to death. Crows…

Angelica comes from Northern Europe where it grows in damp areas like woodlands and alongside rivers. The Vikings are thought to have brought this herb with them to Eastern Europe. One story about how the plant got its name is that an angel supposedly visited a monk to offer angelica as the cure for a plague. Another story is that angelica got its name because its blooming season roughly coincides with the feast day of the archangel Michael. The herb was an ingredient in the Carmelite water…

Can you Freeze a strawberry whole?Reader Question: Can you freeze whole strawberries? Will they turn out mushy when defrosted? Answer: Absolutely! Freezing strawberries whole is my preferred method to freeze strawberries for smoothies. Summer strawberries are always sweeter than what you can get in winter. In the past, I've cut my strawberries in half or even smaller pieces before freezing. Save yourself a step. Cutting them up is unnecessary, just remove the hull (the green top). Keep reading…

grocery store. In the early 1900 imported Chinese ingredients started making it on the scene in Hawaii and Li Hing Mui , the traveling plum, had found a home on the Hawaiian islands. Li Hing Mui’s flavour profile was perfect paired with the bounty of fruit on the islands and one of Hawaii's first food trends was born. Like many crazes or fads demand would eventually…

Alstromeria known by people as Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas or parrot lily is a south America genus of over 50 species of flowering plants with its natural habitat ranging from the cool mountain of the Andes in Chile, Peru and brazil and this magnificent flower was discovered in the 18th century by the Swedish scientist Clas alstromer Fabulously beautiful with varying shades of bright green, bright purple, orange, pink, rose, purple, red, yellow, white or salmon colors, this unique color…

In most tropical countries with long coastlines where coconut palms grow in abundance, coconut water has always been used as a refreshing drink and a health enhancer. The people of the Pacific Islands respect the coconut and use all of its parts for food and medicine. It is only recently that this humble natural beverage has started receiving the attention it clearly deserves in North America. If you are not familiar with this drink, coconut water is the nearly colorless liquid contained within…

Introduction Essential oils (EOs) are aromatic volatile liquids obtained from plant materials whether they are vascular plant or nonvascular plants including; buds, flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves, twigs, bark, wood ,roots and herbs. Citrus plants constitute one of the main essential oils sources (Burt, 2004; Hammer, 1999). They belong to Rutaceae family, which originated from tropical and subtropical south-eastern parts of the world (Sawamura, 2010). Citrus species were cultivated in China long…